LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Tenby, Pembrokeshire. — At twelve noon on the 23rd of August, 1952, the coastguard reported that the auxiliary sailing ketch West Winds, which had left Tenby bound for Gloucester, had not moved her position for several hours, and that her...

OLD WARSHIP ADRIFT Holynead, Anglesey.—At 9.5 in the morning of the 24th of March, 1947, the coastguard telephoned that an SOS had been picked up by Seaforth and Plymouth Wireless Stations giving a bearing six miles south-west of...

Cromer, Norfolk.—At 7.14 on the evening of the 23rd of November, 1952, the coastguard said he had learnt from a wireless signal that distress rockets had been seen four miles east- by-north of Cromer. The life-boat Henry Blogg was launched...

THE following is a copy of a Circular issued by the Board of Trade to the different Local Life-boat Committees and others who have charge of life-boats on the coasts:— " Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Marine Department,...

ON the night of the 3rd of November, 1951, a south-west gale was blowing on the south coast of Cornwall, with heavy rain. The night was very dark. A small Spanish steamer the Mina Cantiquin, of Gijon, with a crew of seventeen, was steaming...

OCTOBER 20TH. - GALWAY BAY. At 9.30 at night a life-boatman reported distress signals from the Milford Haven steam trawler Star of Don, which was in Killeany Bay to the south of the life-boat station. A strong north-east wind was blowing,...

There was a constant stream of visitors to see Mountbatten of Burma, the prototype RNLI Medina 35 lifeboat.. - View image in PDF

Walton and Frinton, Essex.—About ten o'clock on the morning of the llth of January, 1953, the Walton-on-the- Naze coastguard telephoned that the Cork lightvessel had reported seeing a steamer two miles south-by-west of the lightvessel....